Hot Gossip | Book, Essay

Book details:

Pages: 288

Rating: 2.67

Original Title
Hot Gossip (Black Lace)

ISBN
0352338806
(ISBN13:
9780352338808
)

Edition Language
English

Book description:

Suzy Whitbread packs in her job at a beauty salon and returns to the rural English village where she grew up. As a teenager the locals frowned on her close relationship with Clifton McKenna, father of her best friend and master of the local hunt. Clifton used to be in control of everything, including Suzy's burgeoning sexuality, but now he is confined to a wheelchair after a riding accident. Suzy is determined to help him recover while his overbearing wife is on an extended vacation, and they are soon playing out scenes of exquisite sexual torment in Clifton's luxury mansion.
As if this were not reason enough for some very hot gossip, the McKenna's son has become embroiled with a girl from the traveller community. It is only a matter of time before a furious Mrs McKenna will return from her holiday to find all hell has broken loose.

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